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Christie Golden announced today via Twitter that she has been laid off from Blizzard's Story & Franchise Development team, effective late January.

The New York Times best-selling author is no longer affiliated with Blizzard.

Here's what Christie had to say on Twitter:

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We wish Christie all the best in her future endeavors.

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I mean, when they revealed she had no influence on the actual, in game story and moreover wasn't given advance information on how they were "planning" it, it became clear that the "she's here to fix the plot problems guys" was BS.

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This was unexpected. It's understandable why she didn't talk about it earlier, considering what happened.

She wrote some good things, but also some bad, my opinion about her writing is very mixed. Their writing team has shrunk significantly with all these recent layoffs.

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27 minutes ago, Arcling said:

This was unexpected. It's understandable why she didn't talk about it earlier, considering what happened.

She wrote some good things, but also some bad, my opinion about her writing is very mixed. Their writing team has shrunk significantly with all these recent layoffs.

Honestly, I think it's for the best. A bloated writing team will only lead to more mix ups and inconsistencies, shown by the various films coming from hollywood these days.

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10 minutes ago, Q said:

Honestly, I think it's for the best. A bloated writing team will only lead to more mix ups and inconsistencies, we shown by the various films coming from hollywood these days.

Yeah, "too many cooks in the kitchen" can be problematic for story's consistency. It's also important to note that most of those laid off from writing team were from their fact checking section, so I'm not sure if this will actually help. To be fair, there was never a lot of long term planning going on, story was secondary to gameplay. Which is why we had cases such as evil masterminds stacking on top of other evil masterminds. I wonder if they'll stick to their tie-in book formula, because usually much of the story doesn't make sense without them.

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Good riddance. 

Only thing I really remember from her writing was when she described how Sylvanas was so proud to be the first female warchief. Because that's absolutely relevant AND in-line with her as a character.

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6 minutes ago, ArktiqSloth said:

Good riddance. 

Only thing I really remember from her writing was when she described how Sylvanas was so proud to be the first female warchief. Because that's absolutely relevant AND in-line with her as a character.

I do so hate Californian culture

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Thank God she's gone, but I'd still like to know who came up with many of the absurd ideas in Shadowlands. What I'm most interested in is who decided to reforge the Helmet of Domination into Crown of Wills xD

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1 hour ago, Twojastara said:

Thank God she's gone, but I'd still like to know who came up with many of the absurd ideas in Shadowlands. What I'm most interested in is who decided to reforge the Helmet of Domination into Crown of Wills xD

Most would say Afrasabi or, after Afrasabi's departure from the company, Danuser. Neither of which are very good story tellers, tbh, with how much of a lack of consistency there is in the game's story.

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1 hour ago, Twojastara said:

Thank God she's gone, but I'd still like to know who came up with many of the absurd ideas in Shadowlands. What I'm most interested in is who decided to reforge the Helmet of Domination into Crown of Wills xD

I actually forgot this happened. My brain must have locked it away. Shadowlands isn't real in my happy place 🤣 

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18 hours ago, Twojastara said:

Thank God she's gone, but I'd still like to know who came up with many of the absurd ideas in Shadowlands. What I'm most interested in is who decided to reforge the Helmet of Domination into Crown of Wills xD

She wasn't in charge of in game story. She wrote books and various cinematics. Most of Shadowlands was Steven Danuser and whatever Alex Afrasiabi left before his forced departure.

Christie Golden was a part of old guard. Some of her books were written before WoW, like Lord of the Clans, which was loosely based on a cancelled Warcraft Adventures game.

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Yeah it's a mistake to blame Golden for the wow storyline, she was only responsible for the books from what we saw with the inadvertant social media leak of "I don't know what they're going to do in the next part of the in game story".    

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